I am Cand. Agric. (1979) in Crop Science and PhD (1986) in Genetics and Plant Breeding from the Agricultural University of Norway (now the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, UMB). I have been employed as Ass. Prof. at UMB (1992-2005) and as full professor from 2005. My research activity is broad including classical population and quantitative genetics, molecular markers, gene flow, linkage and quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping, comparative and functional genomics in plants. I am especially interested in the genetics of adaptation of plants to abiotic stress (low temperature, drought) and genetic variation determining climatic adaptation (photoperiod, temperature) in natural populations. These research topics is being addressed in my group using perennial forage grass species (Festuca, Lolium and Phleum), Arabidopsis thaliana and the model grass species Brachypodium distachyon. Two sabbatical years, 1991-1992 and 2002-2003, have been spent at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK. I have extensive administrative experience as project leader, group leader, head of research committee, and head of department, and I also headed the UMB activity of the functional genomics project FUGE-NARC (The Norwegian Arabidopsis Research Centre).
Institutt for plante- og miljøvitenskap Postboks 5003 1432 Ås
